Some important facts, not generally known, respecting old-time plagues and pestilences may be gleaned from parish registers and churchwardens' accounts, and it is from such records that we propose mainly to draw materials for this chapter.
"Old Church Lore"
William Andrews
Plague, pestilences, and sore afflictions for a long time, and finally death of the first born, were imposed upon each Egyptian household.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
But from the sorely-tried third quarter of the fourteenth century the solitary voice of Langland cries, as the voice of Conscience preaching with her cross, that "these pestilences" are the penalty of sin and of naught else.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward